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Picturing Yiddish : Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy by Diane Wolfthal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Picturing Yiddish : Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy about?

This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are strikingly inventive and full of a joie de vivre that gives the lie to the lachrymose view of Jewish history. This volume, which explores how Yiddish imagery constructs women, Jewish memory, and Jewish identity, will interest art historians, feminist scholars, Jewish Studies specialists, and specialists in the history of the book.

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Author

Diane Wolfthal

Publisher

Boston : Brill

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610915293

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, History, Crafts & Hobbies